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Financial exclusion affects over 22 million unbanked and 47 million underbanked adults in underserved communities in the United States.
The study conducts a systematic literature review analyzing 95 papers published between 2002 and 2025.
Fair value losses on banks' available-for-sale and held-to-maturity securities portfolios totaled $300 billion combined at the end of 2025.
The Nordic PE market recorded an average of 392 deals per quarter in 2025, compared with 377 in 2024, 355 in 2023, and 388 in 2022.
Total recovery and reconstruction needs for Ukraine exceed $486 billion according to updated calculations by the World Bank.
Directive 2023/2225/UE regulates consumer creditworthiness evaluation under Article 18 and will apply from 20 November 2026.
The study surveyed 1,002 valid Generation Z respondents aged 18 to 28 who had previously used digital wealth management platforms.
Italian SMEs face structural undercapitalization, maintaining average equity ratios below 30%, whereas Northern European economies exceed 40-45%.
In Full Year 2025, the Open Banking fraud rate by volume was 0.017% compared to 0.043% for the wider industry.
Research and development (R&D) investment remains persistently low across Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, staying below 0.1% of GDP in all three countries.
The study analyzes financial data from 163 Polish companies that conducted a total of 188 equity crowdfunding (ECF) campaigns between 2014 and 2023.
Primary microdata was collected from 1,653 university students to evaluate the determinants of Generation Z financial literacy across Spain and Ecuador.
Indonesia's digital economy recorded a Gross Merchandise Value of $82 billion in 2024, supported by more than 2,400 active startups across various sectors.
Small and medium-sized enterprises provide up to 78% of non-agricultural employment in emerging economies, though more than 30% fail within their first three years.
Annual VC funding into Irish SMEs fell by 23% in FY 2025, marking the first annual decline since 2018.
Startups face a structural financing gap that traditional intermediaries are poorly equipped to address, which crowdfunding helps alleviate across 4 primary models.
Introduced in December 2024 by Rob Murray, the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSR Bank) is designed as a multilateral development bank with an initial capital of around €117 billion.
Workplace technology adoption expanded, with one-in-four workers having used generative AI at work in the prior month.
Total assets on the Federal Reserve balance sheet increased by $49 billion from September 24, 2025, reaching $6.7 trillion as of March 25, 2026.
Sveriges Riksbank started publishing values for SWESTR on 2 September 2021 based on transaction data from 9 banks.
The global crowdfunding market reached $20.46 billion in 2025, with overall platform success rates ranging between 22-24%.
The fintech ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean grew by 112% over three years, expanding from 1,166 platforms in 2018 to 2,482 in 2021.
Alternative online lenders can offer fast business financing but charge high interest rates ranging from 18–40% per year.
In 2024, approximately 37 million adults in Colombia, accounting for 96 % of the adult population, held at least one financial product, while active usage reached 79 %.
In the Riksbank's survey, 91 per cent of respondents used Swish in the past month, making mobile payments increasingly widespread.
A net 12% of euro area firms reported an increase in bank loan interest rates, up from 2% in the previous quarter.
Excluding China, the global alternative finance market grew continuously from $44 billion in 2015 to $113 billion in 2020.
Argentina lost 14% of its native forest area between 1998 and 2023, declining from 54.5 million ha to 47 million ha.
In 2025, the global volume of crowdfunding exceeded $20 billion, driven by donation, reward, equity, and lending platforms.
Financial services and insurance leads planned PE investment activity over the next one to two years, identified by 60% of respondents.
